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The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt / Jill Watts.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0802129102
  • 9780802129109
Other title:
  • Untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/0730904 23
LOC classification:
  • E807 .W388 2020
Contents:
Prologue -- Of people and politics, 1908-1932 -- Called to Washington, 1933-1935 -- Thinking and planning together, 1935-1939 -- Fighting on two fronts, 1940-1944 -- Vanishing figures.
Summary: "In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty in the South, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. But Roosevelt's victory created the opportunity for a group of African American intellectuals and activists to join his administration as racial affairs experts. Known as the Black Cabinet, they organized themselves into an unofficial council. They innovated antidiscrimination policy, documented the New Deal's inequalities, led programs that lifted people out of poverty and paved the way for greater federal accountability to African Americans and a greater black presence in government. But the Black Cabinet never won official recognition from Roosevelt, and with his death, it disappeared from history. This is its story"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks E807 .W388 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001499606

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- Of people and politics, 1908-1932 -- Called to Washington, 1933-1935 -- Thinking and planning together, 1935-1939 -- Fighting on two fronts, 1940-1944 -- Vanishing figures.

"In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty in the South, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. But Roosevelt's victory created the opportunity for a group of African American intellectuals and activists to join his administration as racial affairs experts. Known as the Black Cabinet, they organized themselves into an unofficial council. They innovated antidiscrimination policy, documented the New Deal's inequalities, led programs that lifted people out of poverty and paved the way for greater federal accountability to African Americans and a greater black presence in government. But the Black Cabinet never won official recognition from Roosevelt, and with his death, it disappeared from history. This is its story"-- Provided by publisher.

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